25 NOVEMBER 1882, Page 3

A very important pleliscite will be taken in Switzerland on

Sunday. The Federal Assembly has decided that each Canton must establish adequate schools, which shall give education gratis, and be under the direct control of' the State. As this order involves the gradual extinction of all religious schools, the Ultramontanes and orthodox Protestants have for once com- bined, and with the aid of the Particularists, who maintain that such questions should be left to the Cantons, they have secured 180,000 votes in favour of a reference to the people.